dohminator
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I've moved into an apartment with a friend of mine. He has a pretty decent sound setup. The thing that grabs my attention is the 1/4" in headphone plug. Finally I can plug my W100s in without using a 1/4" to mini converter.
He has a pioneer dvd player with a pioneer reciever. He has a decent setup. So I plug my headphones in to the reciever. And I start listening to Incubus. And I thought to myself, "this sounds like utter crap." The sound coming out of the reciever was muttled and distorted. Along with a noticeable hiss. I also had not gotten the speakers turned off, which created another problem since it was 4 in the morning.
So I figured out how to turn the speakers off, then I went to work figuring out how to fix this God awful sound. I'm looking over the buttons, and I'm not finding anything to fix the problem. By some off chance though, I decided to push the "loudness" button. Well this solved the problem immediatley. Incubus was coming through crystal clear, and with no hiss. No distortion at all.
My assumption is that the loudness button was a disguised bass boost. The bass was over exaggerated with it turned on. Why would anyone want to turn this on though. Don't they know they are screwing with the sound.
I know the reason. It is because he wants booming powerful bass. It is the same reason he spent $400 on the sub.
Also the reason they probably call it the "loudness" button, is because the added bass makes it seem louder without actually increasing the overall volume.
Has anyone else experienced the same thing?
He has a pioneer dvd player with a pioneer reciever. He has a decent setup. So I plug my headphones in to the reciever. And I start listening to Incubus. And I thought to myself, "this sounds like utter crap." The sound coming out of the reciever was muttled and distorted. Along with a noticeable hiss. I also had not gotten the speakers turned off, which created another problem since it was 4 in the morning.
So I figured out how to turn the speakers off, then I went to work figuring out how to fix this God awful sound. I'm looking over the buttons, and I'm not finding anything to fix the problem. By some off chance though, I decided to push the "loudness" button. Well this solved the problem immediatley. Incubus was coming through crystal clear, and with no hiss. No distortion at all.
My assumption is that the loudness button was a disguised bass boost. The bass was over exaggerated with it turned on. Why would anyone want to turn this on though. Don't they know they are screwing with the sound.
I know the reason. It is because he wants booming powerful bass. It is the same reason he spent $400 on the sub.
Also the reason they probably call it the "loudness" button, is because the added bass makes it seem louder without actually increasing the overall volume.
Has anyone else experienced the same thing?